Marketo is the only Marketing Automation Platform you should use
December 18, 2020

Marketo is the only Marketing Automation Platform you should use

Colton Slauson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Marketo Lead Management
  • Marketo Analytics
  • Marketo Web Personalization
  • Marketo Sales Insight

Overall Satisfaction with Marketo

Marketo is being used to help track and manage marketing campaigns. Marketo allows us to properly score and source our leads upon creation. It is used in marketing, but it benefits the whole company. The information that is captured in Marketo is then passed on to SFDC (SDR) and Bizible (Multi-touch Attribution).
  • Lead Scoring
  • Landing page creation
  • Email sends
  • Campaign Management
  • Lead Lifecycle management
  • Can be expensive (pay more for additional storage)
  • Doesn't have the best user interface
  • Steep learning curve
  • Product Launches
  • Upsell
  • Cross-Sell
  • Lead Management
  • Prospecting / New Business
We have a lot of email campaigns that allow us to inform current customers and compliant prospects of new product launches and updates.
We also use Marketo to help us identify what customers can be targeted for upsell or cross-sell. We then put those target accounts into our ABM strategy to create new opps.
HubSpot is great for smaller businesses, but once you get to a certain point you want the flexibility that Marketo has. Marketo has a great list of native integration and it's connection with SFDC is great. I would compare Adobe Photoshop and Canva to these two platforms. Photoshop (MKTO) isn't as pretty as Canva (HubSpot), but it can do way more.
Marketo is really robust and can help produce amazing campaign tracking. Marketo does a great job at tracking a leads creation, stamping lead source, scoring that lead, and pushing to the designated lifecycle/funnel stage. It allows for sales to spend less time cold calling and more time calling actionable hot leads.

Adobe Marketo Engage Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG email editor
7
Dynamic content
6
Ability to test dynamic content
8
Landing pages
9
A/B testing
9
Mobile optimization
8
Email deliverability reporting
9
List management
10
Triggered drip sequences
10
Lead nurturing automation
9
Lead scoring and grading
10
Data quality management
10
Automated sales alerts and tasks
10
Calendaring
7
Event/webinar marketing
10
Social sharing and campaigns
8
Social profile integration
10
Dashboards
7
Standard reports
8
Custom reports
9
API
10
Role-based workflow & approvals
9
Customizability
7
Integration with Salesforce.com
10